Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Broadcast Alchemy


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Eddie891 Talk Work 19:37, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Broadcast Alchemy

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Completely unsourced article about a small defunct local radio company and a minimally sourced separate article about its slightly larger (but still small, local and defunct) successor company following a merger. As always, companies are not "inherently" notable just because they existed, and have to show passage of WP:CORPDEPTH on reliable source coverage about them -- but Broadcast Alchemy is a completely unreferenced one-line stub that's been flagged for lacking references since 2009, and Secret Communications contextlessly lists one news article from a local business publication as an external link without actually using it to footnote any content, but even just a basic WP:GNG pass requires a lot more than just one source. I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with much better access to archived Cincinatti-area media from the nineties and naughts than I've got can find enough to salvage it, but nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt either of them from having to be sourced properly -- and even if enough coverage can be found to salvage them, it still might not be clear that we would need two articles here instead of just one. Bearcat (talk) 16:42, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Radio and Ohio. Bearcat (talk) 16:42, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  20:38, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete both If we go into List of companies subsumed into iHeart, Inc. (much less any radio conglomerate) it would be an endless list. Companies that owned three or four stations in the 90s don't meet N and even then would be limited to their own station articles, and most of these companies were 'run for fun' entities that had no designs on expansion pre-1996.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 22:36, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * We actually do have iHeartMedia, though Secret and its predecessor aren't mentioned there (probably because, even though all its stations were bought by companies that ultimately merged into Clear Channel/iHeart, it wasn't a package sale to only one company, despite initial plans otherwise).  WC  Quidditch  ☎   ✎  22:48, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete both: These definitely didn't need to be two separate articles, but unless sources emerge to the contrary having any article would appear to require more significant coverage than is presently presented. (I'll note that a passing mention in this article — which by itself counts for nothing — mentions that Secret owned 14 stations around 1994, though that doesn't mean much either other than further establishing the lack of any suitable redirect target.) Of the two, Secret Communications is probably the only one that should have a proper article if sufficient sourcing is found, but I'm not exactly holding my breath.  WC  Quidditch  ☎   ✎  23:00, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete both: Neither of these articles contain the level of WP:SIGCOV to pass the GNG, and I'm not finding much else elsewhere, either with Cincinatti-area media or national coverage. User:Let'srun 03:24, 26 September 2023 (UTC)


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